On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 08:17:30 -0500, Mike Rivers wrote:


In article writes:

That may be true but there have been a lot of commercial DAW programs
that have come and gone in five years that have made a lot of Windoze
and Mac users happy (or frustrated).

But were they designed and written by just one (or two) people ?
That's the difference between "years" and "man years".

My point is that they WERE designed, debugged, and released. Somebody
saw to it that the job got done. It may be fun to follow the progress
of a hobbyist, but until he has a functional and stable (as in "not
changing it every week or so) product, it's still a hobby.

I've paid a great deal of cash for software less stable than Ardour, even
in it's current state. Nuendo 1.0, first decided to change the position of
all the tracks in a project if you worked at 48K, then sent full scale
noise through the speakers and blew up a pair of NS10s. Took months to get
a fix for working at 48k. Also, corrupted sessions.. You name it.

I know, I should not have been doing a project on 1.0 software (esp
Steinberg), but it was so shiny, new, expensive and 'professional'. And
the problems did not show up with tests at 44.1k.

At least with Ardour, if there is a crash, you can carry on from where you
left off. It even lets you pull the plug while recording, and still have
the recorded audio in the session up till the moment the power was cut. I
don't know any other sequencer that does that.

Little things like that are sometimes more important that getting the
product out the door to coincide with the magazine advertising space
you've booked.